Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. Instead, colleges and universities hire instructors to keep things going. And they do.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” We’re trying to do this unnatural thing in this unnaturally compressed time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

If anything, Course Hero has doubled down on its model by replicating its resource-sharing platform for instructors and faculty members. The company is also working with textbook publishers on interactive experiences that pair reading materials from the book with quizzes on Course Hero.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Open educational resources (OER) have saved students at the University of Georgia (UGA) nearly $2 million in textbook costs alone over the past three years. The free tool appears within the pages of OpenStax textbooks and is designed to enhance students’ long-term retention of course content.

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Gaggle Speaks

JULY 14, 2015

How many copies of worksheets, handouts or textbook pages do teachers make each week? In fact, a major barrier for students completing various assignments online has been the lack of a digital grading workflow that instructors can adopt. Loose papers, paper in binders, papers stapled together, and worst of all, piles of paper.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Traditional classroom learning is now modernizing Debates remain about online vs. classroom learning Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Classroom learning remains a cornerstone of education, fostering a dynamic environment where students engage with peers and instructors in real-time.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

What Smart Sparrow and a slew of other upstarts now offer are course-building platforms that let instructors and supporting staff design online courses completely from scratch. Dror-Naim believes in giving instructors full control over designing all the different paths of content that learners may encounter. Will Schools Pony Up?

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

From 2006 to 2016, the cost of textbooks increased by 88 percent, more than than nearly any other college student expense—including tuition and fees (63 percent) or on-campus housing (51 percent)—according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

She thinks it’s “kind of seen as old-fashioned,” and most college and university campuses would go with composition and writing textbooks such as “The Little Seagull Handbook,” “The Everyday Writer” or “The Writer’s Reference.” But Hall does think that Strunk and White has been replaced.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2017

It’s actually quite challenging as an instructor,” he says. He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. It’s kind of like one of those questions like ‘Why is the sky blue?’ When you go to actually answer it it gets complicated.”

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For retrieval practice to be effective at building and strengthening neural links, students must try to pull the information from memory and not simply glance over their course notes or the textbook (Miller, 2022, p. Likewise, any review at the end of class needs to be done by the students, not the instructor.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

They learn how to manage time, organize tasks, and communicate with instructors. Technology-Enhanced Learning Experiences Online education isnt just textbooks uploaded to a computer. Encouraging Independence and Responsibility Online learning doesnt just deliver content, it builds character. Online schools change that.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Host quizzes, storytelling hours, or digital exhibitions of local art. Teachers as Cultural Architects Teachers in virtual schools are not just instructors, theyre designers of space, tone, and belonging. It signals that the school values lived culture, not just textbook content. Even asynchronous forums can be powerful.

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Culture Schools Language Languages 52

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I Such checking may be more like the way textbook publishers operate than traditional professors.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

But surveys indicate the most common way students use technology at school is taking online tests and quizzes. I didnt use those computers until COVID, said Adrienne Staten, a veteran English teacher in Philadelphia who was far more comfortable with textbooks, paper, and handwriting. Some educators are determined to buck that trend.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer is now a senior instructor and researcher at Virginia Tech. Boyer even created a comic alter ego called the Plaid Avenger , who has narrated textbooks and podcasts but is now largely retired—though Boyer still sports his famous plaid jackets and drives a plaid Scion. “Geography is the somewhere.” The class then had 50 students.

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